Technician Surface Mechanical Maintenance - Olympic Dam, 7/7

Our Operations

One of Australia's largest mines and a complex minerals processing operation, Olympic Dam, is unique in that we produce Copper, Uranium, Gold and Silver. The local township of Roxby Downs is an active and progressive community offering a variety of modern, well equipped housing, educational, health, sporting, leisure, shopping and cultural facilities.

Please note this position is based at Olympic Dam, operating on a 7/7 day/night roster pattern arrangement with residential, FIFO (from Adelaide) or DIDO options available.

About the Role

An opportunity exists for a qualified Mechanical Fitter to work with at our Olympic Dam operations performing planned, unplanned and or breakdown maintenance activities within our highly skilled maintenance team.

In this role you will: 

• Comply to and consistently follow the standards and procedures designed to enable you to work safely and effectively every day
• Provide technical expertise within the team to facilitate planned, unplanned and or breakdown maintenance and preventative shut down maintenance
• Develop close working relationships with operations personnel to ensure that all plant downtime issues are escalated correctly and remedied promptly
• Provide continual feedback to the maintenance supervisor on job/task progress

About you 

• Proven commitment to look after your own wellbeing and the confidence to speak up when others put themselves in harm's way
• Australian recognised Trade qualifications in Mechanical Engineering 
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels and functions
• Previous experience working within an operational maintenance environment
• Ability to operate across multiple work-fronts ensuring you maintain and clean and tidy workplace
• Understanding of Quality Assurance principles and associated systems and practices

APPLICATIONS CLOSE:  21 June 2025 at Midnight SA Time

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